This annotated bibliography, which was developed as part of a series of selected bibliographies on aging for Great Britain's Centre for Policy on Ageing, contains a total of 368 entries organized under the following subject headings: risk (identification, nature, responsibilities, risk taking, security); environmental safety (hazards, design, accident data); communications (dispersed alarms, electronic monitoring, telephone support, area wardens, two-way communications); falls (causes, prevention, consequences); fire (prevention measures, fire-fighting strategies, evacuation); food and drink (nutrition, effects of alcohol, equipment); health and fitness (exercise, relationship between health and aging); hypothermia (medical factors, environmental factors, diagnosis, management, other cold-related risks, health-related risks); medication (drug administration, adverse reactions, adverse interactions, overmedication); mobility (footwear, walking aids, lifts, wheelchairs); and road safety (drivers, pedestrians, car adaptations). Each annotation contains the following information: author, title, publisher and city/year of publication, document length, and annotation summarizing the document's content and/or thesis. Concluding the bibliography is an author index. (MN)